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FENCE. No. 310,559. Patented Jan. 13, 1885.

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DAVID CAMP, OF WAKESHMA, MICHIGAN.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part or Letters Patent No. 310,559, dated January 13, 1885. Application filed March 13, 1864. (No model.)

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My invention consistsin certain improved features of construction, below described and claimed, whereby the construction and use of board and rail fences are facilitated.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the fence. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the support; and Figs. 3, I, and 5 are broken portions in enlarged perspective.

The fence may be made of boards B, or of rails similarly arranged. The supports at each end of a length of fence consist in bracebars D D, converging toward the top, which are connected bya cross-bar, a, near the lower end. Two upright standards are centrally bolted to the cross-bar a, and are bolted to the ends of the brace-bar D at the top. a a are cleats to support the ends of the boards or rails, which are inserted between the upright bars P P. The lower ends of the bracebars D D are provided with foundation-blocks r r, to prevent the supports from settling into the ground, as in former constructions. The ends of the boards B1 may be notched to fit over the cleats a a. The top boards or rails, as the case may be, are surmounted by the clamps c, and thus are prevented from being thrown off the fence. These clamps consist of two pieces-one on each side of the upright standards Phaving between them a center block a little thinner than said standards 1?. The parts of the clamp are held together by a tension-bolt, 6. By tightening this bolt the clamp binds the standards P and holds the top boards down in place.

The fence is topped by abrace or stay wire, 12, connected to the clamp c by means of pins or staples 2'. Thus the clamps are all connected a given distance apart, preventing loss and forming a guide to the position of the standards. The fence is thus braced or stayed from canting endwise, and one less board or rail is needed at the top of the fence than in prior constructions.

Such a fence is cheaply made, is very strong, and may be moved as a whole; or the parts can be readily detached and moved and put up again.

Heretoforc end supports have been employed, consisting of cleated upright center standards, a base strip or sill, and oblique side braces connecting with the outer ends of the sill and with the upper ends of the center uprights, the ends of the rails or boards resting on said cleats between the upright standards. A clamp has been used at the top of the upright standards, but was held by crossed fence-stakes engaging the extended ends of the clamp. My clamp is made to clamp the standards by means of a tension-bolt, which makes it perfectly secure and conveniently adjustable.

Fences have been topped out with one or more wires stretched from one post or end standard to another in a well-known manner,- but the use of the top wire in the present fence is to connect the clamps, as hereinbefore explained.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A fence composed of cleated upright standards with base-bars and side braces, rails, or boards, the ends thereof resting on the cleats of said standards, and clamps consisting of center blocks thinner than the standardsside pieces, and tensionbolts passed through said side pieces, and blocks for clamping the side pieces against the standards to hold the clamps pressed down on the top boards or rails, and a top wire connecting the clamps, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID CAMP.

Witnesses:

GEO. IVIODONALD, 7 ANDREW J AOKSON snannsrnann. 

